Andre Gide
Andre Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gidewas a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth22 November 1869
CountryFrance
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant.
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.